Konami Promotes Pachinko Machine to Chief of Operations
Video game company Konami announced this week that a Silent Hill pachinko machine will be taking on the role of Chief of Operations. The new management decision coincides with the…
Steam Threatens to Remove Violent Anime Games
Several game developers were contacted earlier this week by Valve, stating that games containing excessive amounts of violence were to have the content removed or face delisting from Steam by…
Tokyo Anime Award Recognizes ‘Violet Evergarden’ as “Most Okay Anime”
TOKYO, Japan — The Tokyo Anime Awards, a festival seeking to recognize and award excellence in Japanese animation, has announced plans to create a new award category “Most Okay Anime”…
Man Unable to Remember if He’s Seen ‘Last Exile’ Due to MyAnimeList Maintenance
Due to currently ongoing maintenance of MyAnimeList, anime fan James Lewis was forced to rack his brain today to recall if he had or hadn’t seen the 2003 anime Last…
Fantasy Light Novel ‘We Are Updating Our Privacy Policy to Reflect Increased Transparency Requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation’ Enters Publication
Publishing news website Yen Press announced this week that a new light novel by Ainana Hiro titled We Are Updating Our Privacy Policy to Reflect Increased Transparency Requirements of the General…
New Report Concludes That 60% of Japanese Adults Are Actually Children
Earlier this week, the Japanese government released a statement addressing the recent controversy that much of the nation’s adults are much younger than they appear.
Japan’s has struggled with workplace demographics for decades, and experts have long feared that due to low birthrates the nation would soon have difficulties maintaining its supply of labor. With this new revelation, it appears that the issue has not been with the birthrate at all, but rather the fact that a significant proportion of Japan’s adult population are actually children.
‘Darling in the FranXX’ is the ‘Dark Souls’ of Anime
In today’s day and age, we love a good comparison, and nothing is more commonly compared than FromSoftware’s action RPG Dark Souls. We’ve all heard the gags and seen the clickbaity…
SpaceX Launches Newly-Announced ‘Zetta’ Nesoberi into Earth Orbit
Officials at SpaceX, Bushiroad, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced today the successful launch and deployment of a giant stuffed plush depicting Love Live! Sunshine!! character Sakurauchi Riko into low earth…
Anime Maru at ACen 2018
Hello readers, kevo here. I am pleased to announce that Vestro and I will be having an Anime Maru panel at Anime Central (in Rosemont, Illinois) this year. If you…
‘Sword Art Online’ Author Admits He Doesn’t Play Video Games
Kawahara Reki, the creator of the immensely popular Sword Art Online series, revealed shocking details regarding his career during a press conference earlier today after a journalist asked him if he drew any…
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